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Victory.

Author: Joseph Conrad
Publisher: New York, Modern Library [©1915]
Series: Modern library of the world's best books.
Edition/Format:  Print book : Fiction : EnglishView all editions and formats
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In Victory (1915) Conrad returns to the Malay Archipelago, to the setting of his first mature novel, Lord Jim, and in Axel Heyst he creates a hero who is in many ways similar to Jim, a noble altruist destroyed by his ideals. Heyst is emotionally crippled by the influence of his dead father, a sceptical philosopher who has bequeathed to Heyst an attitude to life summed up in the father's dying words: 'Look on - make  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Psychological fiction
Fiction
Named Person: 385p.
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Joseph Conrad
OCLC Number: 10372348
Description: 385 pages 18 cm.
Series Title: Modern library of the world's best books.

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In Victory (1915) Conrad returns to the Malay Archipelago, to the setting of his first mature novel, Lord Jim, and in Axel Heyst he creates a hero who is in many ways similar to Jim, a noble altruist destroyed by his ideals. Heyst is emotionally crippled by the influence of his dead father, a sceptical philosopher who has bequeathed to Heyst an attitude to life summed up in the father's dying words: 'Look on - make no sound.' Despite this injunction Heyst allows himself to become inextricably involved with an English Cockney girl whom he rescues from Giancomo's Travelling Ladies' Orchestra and carries off to his isolated retreat on the island of Samburan. His action incurs the fatal wrath of Schomberg, the island's innkeeper, who sends in pursuit of Heyst three demonic strangers whose invasion of his island paradise leads rapidly to the novel's violent and tragic close.

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